Artist Harry Dodge will present work, research, and thoughts relating to his practice and solo show, “The Inner Reality of Ultra-Intelligent Life,” currently on view at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena.
The exhibition, which runs until January 8, considers machine intelligence and materiality, and features the premiere of two new video works, “Mysterious Fires” and “Big Bang (Song of the Cosmic Hobo).” These videos are paired with earlier drawings and sculptures, which present the evolution of the artist’s interests over the last decade.
Dodge’s presentation will be on Thursday, January 5, at the Pieter Performance Space, located at 420 W Avenue 33 in DTLA, from 7 to 9 p.m.
The event will begin with a screening of Dodge’s 2013 video, “The Ass and The Lap Dog,” which explores issues of transposition, flawed translation and the eerie plenitude of psychic agency via a series of absurd and linguistically complex monologues by five performers.
Dodge has over 20 years of interdisciplinary practice – performance, video-making, sculpture, drawing, and writing. His work is characterized by its explorations of relation, materiality, and the unnamable, with a special focus on ecstatic contamination.
His solo and collaborative work has been exhibited at many venues nationally and internationally.
Dodge is currently working on a book-length essay entitled “My Meteorite.”
Thursday’s event is free. For more information, call (626) 792-5101 or visit www.armoryarts.org/visit/2017-events/dodgetalk.
